
{"id":25161,"date":"2012-04-19T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=25161"},"modified":"2012-04-18T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:21:14","slug":"letter-unc-tent-rule-impacts-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/04\/19\/letter-unc-tent-rule-impacts-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: UNC tent rule impacts demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning we were threatened with arrest while sitting in the Pit, a common gathering area at the heart of UNC-Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campus. Why? Because we were sitting next to a tent, which violates university policy. As Department of Public Safety spokesman Randy Young commented in Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Daily Tar Heel publication, the policy states that no temporary or permanent structures may be erected on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The law enforcement office that issued such a threat advised the group to consider other forms of visibility, including drawing a picture of a tent on a sign and holding it up in the air. Exception being from the hours of 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., during which only official university student organizations may apply to be permitted to use the space. <\/p>\n<p>We were told that if we did not take down the tents ourselves, we would be arrested before they were broken down, removed and potentially confiscated by the authorities. Just as the Occupy movement (both locally and nationally), Carrboro Commune, the Yates Motor Building occupation and use issues surrounding Peace and Justice Plaza in Chapel Hill raised the discourse of private vs. public space, Tuesday&#8217;s events walk a blurry line. While I am grateful that I was not arrested and do not have to deal with court fees, etc., I walked away from the Pit for my 2 p.m. class with my tail between my legs. I took my tent down because I was told to do it because it broke some living document of rules \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one that, for the record, bans &#8220;shanties.&#8221; I have a feeling that part was written during Apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>The original intention of our event was to raise awareness about the Alternative Commencement Ceremony, which is scheduled for May 13 at 9:30 a.m. in the Forest Theatre. This event will be for university students and their families, as well as faculty, staff, and community members who do not support honoring New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at commencement. More information can be found at alternativeunc.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alanna Davis and Kari Dahlgren<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>UNC Alternative Commencement Task Force<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning we were threatened with arrest while sitting in the Pit, a common gathering area at the heart of UNC-Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25171,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25161\/revisions\/25171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}